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The Insanely Interesting Science Born Of A Head InjuryThe Laboratory of Life celebrates the origins of the study of A-Life.In the 70's, mathematician John Horton Conway painstakingly developed a unique implementation of cellular automata while working at the University of Cambridge. This invention was the famous game of 'Life'.Conway took several years to select his rules with great care to avoid two extremes: patterns that grow too quickly without limit and patterns where many would fade away. By striking a delicate balance he constructed a model of surprising unpredictability and one that produced an incredible variety of activity. If you do it right, you created a stable balance of life. If you don't your lifeforms go extinct. The game of Life was first presented to the general public in a series of articles submitted to Martin Gardner's Mathematical Recreations columns within the magazine 'Scientific American'. Laboratory of Life brings those rules to the PC in a game format. You can experiment to find stable arrays while the scoring tool allows you to rank your life building skills against yourself or other people. A variety of screen styles is provided to keep Lab o' Life visually interesting.
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